Site History

April 2019After restoring my backups to a brand new computer, I finally got back online in Ancestry.ca and Family Tree Maker, and began reviewing and researching my family tree.(So, always back up your important files, kids!)

The original family tree was a large paper chart spanning seven generations and about 250 years. It came to me from my father, and came to him through his brothers Charles or Eric. Back in 1999, I entered the whole thing into Family Tree Maker, uploaded a GEDCOM file to the World Family Tree project, and started updating and researching family members.

Nov. 22/14After about 15 years, I retired my personal Linux server, which housed my original “True Life” web project and a few other web shrines. I gradually rebuilt the True Life project in its new WordPress home. Right now, I’m rebuilding the 66-71 story album. (As of 2019, that album is still unfinished.)

Jun. 19/99The first story album, “66 – 71”, was completed. Work began on the second album, “’72-’75”.

Mar. 03/99“True Life” was officially launched!

Jan. 25/99During the months of January and February 1999, this site and its first few stories was previewed to the rest of the Web, and indexed by most of the major search engines. It was officially launched on March 1st, 1999 (my birthday gift to myself).

August 1998This is the point when I started to write the innards of the True Life web shrine – the introduction was actually the first thing I wrote. It was like a manifesto that drove me to start the whole thing.